Just stop. I was an agent, birth control is NOT healthcare unless it is PRESCRIBED by a doctor as MEDICALLY NECESSARY. That was already covered before the mandate, and anything else is an elective, I'm not entertaining your opinions on what people should be paid and what should be covered. I worked the industry, you read a blog.
After reading some of the comments over the last several days, I've come to the conclusion that I just don't know what the right thing to do would be.I want to make access to birth control easier, but I don't want insurance premiums to go through the roof because we're covering this, that and everything else; although I still don't see covering BC under HC insurance plans to be the HUGE problem that some seem to make it out to be.
Cost is irrelevent? Cost is NEVER irrelevent in business.
You truly don't know what you are talking about. Every single penny in an insurance pool makes a difference, it's the definition of a numbers business. I put out one of the more simple formulas earlier, go back and find it.
No, birth control is optional UNLESS a physician signs a prescription for one of two factors 1) Hormonal control for a small percentage of women who have horrendous imbalances during their period and 2) conditions such as endomitriosis which are relieved through use of birth control. They are small percentages of medically necessary, weighted into the risk pool, were already covered, and factored into premium. Optional birth control has none of that.
The daily caller
She is a student; she is not the advocate for slutty broads/dudes that don’t want to use condoms (the $3000 she was referring to was for buying berth control pills).
If those elderly or preemies want birth control they should have to pay for it themselves to. We are talking about birth control not a respirator or an incubator.
Do you even know how those salaries are paid out? They are done with a smaller base salary, stock options cover most of the salary, and bonuses. Payouts on claims come from the risk pool, reinvestment, and reinsurance, not from total revenues, IOW they aren't the same money. Now, when the risk pool grows, the cash on hand shrinks(this is a mandatory minimum pool of capitol required to operate) guess what happens when the cash on hand shrinks, that's right it must be replaced.
Choice!
Start your own business, become a beach bum, buy your own health insurance; all choices that can alleviate the fascism of religious tyranny that having employer based insurance that does not cover contraception imposes (poor you). I think that you can live throw the imposition, as opposed to people that lived through real religious atrocities of the past.
And the true colors come out. UHC is as much the nightmare as anything else, we're done here.